Posted on 07/28/2018 11:11:04 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Therapists in the U.S. say they have seen a rise in politically-related anxiety under the Trump presidency.
Though a condition has not been officially named, therapists and patients have referred to it as “Trump Anxiety Disorder,” according to a report from Canada’s CBC News.
Elisabeth LaMotte, the founder of the D.C. Counseling and Psychotherapy Center in Washington, D.C., told CBC that there is a “collective anxiety” among her patients related to President Trump’s rhetoric and policies.
"There is a fear of the world ending," she said. "It's very disorienting and constantly unsettling."
She said that Trump critics who she treats exhibit similar behavior to patients who have a parent with a personality disorder.
"Whether it's conscious or not, I think we look to the president of the United States as a psychological parent," LaMotte said.
LaMotte told CBC that the “condition” is also common among Trump supporters, who often say they feel “isolated” by friends and family for aligning with the president or pulled into angry conversations.
Steve Stosny, another D.C. therapist, told CBC that he worked with a Trump administration official whose liberal-leaning wife and daughter were “starting to hate him.” The couple eventually decided to divorce, even though the husband left his post. “The wife couldn't take it anymore,” Stosny said. “It's tough when one spouse is at war with the children."
Multiple therapists told CBC that they observed symptoms, including lack of sleep, excessive use of social media, feelings of losing control and helplessness, in their patients that they attributed to Trump-related anxiety.
National data indicates support for their findings.
The American Psychological Association found in a recent online survey that stress levels following the election are the highest they’ve been in a decade. And the majority of respondents reported stress over the 2016 election and the future of the nation as factors.
The APA also found a correlation between stress levels and electronic news consumption.
Therapists told CBC that in recent months, patients have indicated that separation of migrant families at the border, the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and Trump’s various feuds with other world leaders have all been triggers for “Trump Anxiety Disorder.”
So Trump is even creating jobs for mental health professionals?
Most democrats and other liberals have needed serious psychological help for decades. This is nothing new.
Not my anxiety.
These depressed people should find a good legal firm to bring a class action lawsuit against the media because it’s their outrageous propagandizing that are creating the problem and making so many people sick.
Created anxiety?? Yes, positive in the stock market! In our enemies! In the DemocRATS! In the leftist MSM!
Lots of anxiety!!!
“Therapists in the U.S. say they have seen a rise in politically-related anxiety under the Trump presidency.”
Excellent! Time for payback. I was so low during the Obama reign of terror I could limbo under a snake.
Trump Derrangement Syndrome is real and getting more real by the day! By the time The Wall rolls out they will be in final and all out complete meltdown the likes of which no one has seen yet!
Since the anxiety is on the left, the enemedia is very concerned. I don’t recall them publishing any expressions of concern for the anxiety of conservatives over eight of the past ten years though...we just don’t matter to them.
This is made-up nonsense. I am a therapist with a very busy caseload, and I have seen none of this.
BTW, who on earth edits these articles? “She said that Trump critics who she treats . . .” It should be “whom she treats”. Pretty soon everyone who ever had to diagram sentences (or learn proper grammar) as a child will be dead.
Even if you and your people are secretly pro-Trump. All the better.
Someone please post the boo hoo girl.
Cry me a river of tears for those suffering from TDS.
They haven’t taught cursive writing in most schools for years now.
And it is white liberals by the way.
White liberals who love to live in liberal suburbs with HIGH property taxes.
Liberals are such babies.
They call it TAD in this article.
These people are one toke over the line anyway. Same ones who howl at the sky.
Defective people to start with. The folks Obama made anxious, like me, dealt with it.
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